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we're looking at pressure across the board in the energy sector. that's good news for people driving over the holidays. we're looking at gas prices coming down. futures market and prices at the pump, only ten cents higher than a year ago. back to you guys. >> sharon, thank you. well, consumer reports out with a new report on ford's top hybrids and their big mileage claims. the results, let's just say, are not ideal for ford. phil lebeau joining us here. what is the news? >> essentially we're talking about the ford fusion hybrid and the ford c-max hybrid. both of those models claim, according to ford, they are believed to get 47 miles per hour. that's how ford advertises them. that's on the sticker eer on t windows. consumer reports brought them in, did the testing. according to consumer reports, the fusion and c-max hybrids do not get 47 miles per hour. the c-max gets 37 miles per gallon. those are dramatically lower than 47 miles per gallon. just for some point of reference, these are important vehicles for ford because as ford develops that hybri
we're looking at pressure across the board in the energy sector. that's good news for people driving over the holidays. we're looking at gas prices coming down. futures market and prices at the pump, only ten cents higher than a year ago. back to you guys. >> sharon, thank you. well, consumer reports out with a new report on ford's top hybrids and their big mileage claims. the results, let's just say, are not ideal for ford. phil lebeau joining us here. what is the news? >>...
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the cheap energy and consistent energy in our country is remarkable. it is why -- >> stock's up 85% this year. >> they are coining money, david, i know you can say they are late with that but you get these major industrial companies taking advantage of lower energy costs in this country. it is a win for the american people. i'm try to be upbeat in the face of washington pulling us down every single day. >> upbeat tonight on "mad money," 6 and 11? >> brigs and stratton, machinery company. i got to tell you, i use a briggs and stratton energy to be able to power my house during the power outage. see you back here to >> all right, buddy. >> 6.5, the magic number, how let fed says the rate of unemployment has to get to before it even thinks about raising rates. what if we don't get there? we will explore what's at stake for your money. keep it here. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what t
the cheap energy and consistent energy in our country is remarkable. it is why -- >> stock's up 85% this year. >> they are coining money, david, i know you can say they are late with that but you get these major industrial companies taking advantage of lower energy costs in this country. it is a win for the american people. i'm try to be upbeat in the face of washington pulling us down every single day. >> upbeat tonight on "mad money," 6 and 11? >> brigs and...
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and in terms of energy after the bearish fundamental data we got from the energy department yesterday, we're continuing to see a risk off trade in the energy complex here and we're continuing to watch more than a dollar slide here. there's a lot to look forward to, david, on this front with the opec meeting next week as well. back to you. >> thank you very much sharon epperson. >> we did want to note for the viewers, a fairly large hedge fund that was in the news for not good reasons. diamondback capital management, a fund run by richard shimmal and larry kipanzi. richard schimel is the e ex-brother in law. lock capital management. two of those had already closed. level global has closed, in fact one of us founders, andrew chasen is on trial right now. diamondback went down to about $2 billion, but as of this morning, that is no long ter case. the hedge fund saying that given redemption requests came in about 26% of total asset ors $520 million. it would be left with $1.45 billion apparently that's just not enough to run the successful hedge fund. they did have 140 or so people workin
and in terms of energy after the bearish fundamental data we got from the energy department yesterday, we're continuing to see a risk off trade in the energy complex here and we're continuing to watch more than a dollar slide here. there's a lot to look forward to, david, on this front with the opec meeting next week as well. back to you. >> thank you very much sharon epperson. >> we did want to note for the viewers, a fairly large hedge fund that was in the news for not good...
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year over year ex-food and energy up 2.2%. the former up 1.5% is definitely a bit light 2.3% our last look. one could argue matches expectations. a little heavier than our last year over year look which was 2.1. you know if we look at the claims number it's 343,000. that is definitely a very big drop from an upperly advised 372,000. so you know, we're down 29,000 on initial claims. and we're getting back into a zone that we were kind of carving out before superstorm sandy. whether this number is back on track, and around all its distortions of holidays and storms and weather and whatnot, i can't say. but most people around me were shaking their head when they saw it. there's your litany of date to. there's still more to come. you got 170 handle on 10s. a 290 handle on 30s. and it seems like there's some major divergence going on between ten-year and boone which we haven't seen in awhile spread widening. back to you. >> so okay. we're going to -- i mean, you're -- you're pessimistic, too, about anything good happening. but we c
year over year ex-food and energy up 2.2%. the former up 1.5% is definitely a bit light 2.3% our last look. one could argue matches expectations. a little heavier than our last year over year look which was 2.1. you know if we look at the claims number it's 343,000. that is definitely a very big drop from an upperly advised 372,000. so you know, we're down 29,000 on initial claims. and we're getting back into a zone that we were kind of carving out before superstorm sandy. whether this number...
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energy was three. six, seven and eight was all about taxes, and the loss of capital, the growth of business, and tax code complexity. i mean, those are -- those are important issues for the small businesses out there. no question about it. like to know something about what's going on. >> okay. so we go -- let's say that this is resolved, that what we have facing us, some way or another, do you expect that it will come off of these lows that you're seeing? >> well, i think that we'll have to see how the economy evolves. since 80% of the declines in the index was about expectations for business conditions, and poor expectations for real growth, and your sales, that means that the small businesses are going to sit tight. they don't expect more customers so they're not going to hire, and that, of course, showed up. all the other components of the index stayed at recession levels. here we are at this very, very low level of optimism, consumer optimism tanked along with the owner optimism. and a lot of them
energy was three. six, seven and eight was all about taxes, and the loss of capital, the growth of business, and tax code complexity. i mean, those are -- those are important issues for the small businesses out there. no question about it. like to know something about what's going on. >> okay. so we go -- let's say that this is resolved, that what we have facing us, some way or another, do you expect that it will come off of these lows that you're seeing? >> well, i think that we'll...